700,000,000,000

$700,000,000,000.

Wow.

A “7” followed by 11 zeros.

7 x 10 to the 10th power.

I could comfortably retire and live the rest of my life on 1/700,000th of that amount.

Let’s see. We have about 300,000,000 people in the US. That comes out to…..$2333 per person for every man, woman, and child in the United States.

I’m sorry, but the numbers are just getting stupid. They are beyond what we really can comprehend. It would take you 700,000 years of saving a million dollars a year to get to $700,000,000,000. You would have had to start saving a million dollars per year back when homo sapiens first discovered the use of fire.

And really, I don’t think that that number covers the AIG bailout, which could be another $100 Billion. Ah shucks, what’s another $100 Billion between friends? Besides, is there really that big of a difference between $700 Billion and $800 Billion?.................I mean, what’s a measley little hundred billion in the grand scheme of things? A billion is just one thousand million. A hundred billion is just one hundred thousand million.

Time out………I’m talking about numbers that I really can’t get my head around. I’m glad those guys in Washington can figure this stuff out…………….oops……….…guess they can’t. But the big question I have is why are the guys who failed to regulate in the first place the same guys that are recommending our bailout? Why do they still have jobs?

There is one lesson that can be learned. If you are going to fail, fail so spectacularly that the entire economy of the world is threatened, and you will have our government falling all over itself to bail you out.

Well, gotta start saving for the year 702,008 AD,

Blawgerman